random extract: Archive

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Jan 2nd

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Nov 23rd

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Nov 23rd

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This video is quite brilliant and so is the work being done at CIID. Final Exhibition happens in Copenhagen in December. http://ciid.dk/education/portfolio/idp11/final-exhibition/

Nov 21st

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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

Very interesting post by Bret Victor. It’s a lot about hands

Nov 18th

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Nov 16th

Oct 28th

“Some people say that when they look at a calendar, I look at a watch…”

– President Jimmy Carter in an interview on BBC

Oct 16th

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Oct 15th

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Oct 11th

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“Try and be nice to people. Avoid eating fat. Read a good book now & then.”

– iPhone 4s Siri’s answer to “Have you figured out the meaning of life?”

Oct 5th

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“Who among us wants to describe ourselves as “typical”? If, for...”

– Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Sep 25th

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Sep 24th

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Healthcare innovation coming out of Stanford

A couple of projects from Stanford that innovate using the challenges and limitations of designing for developing countries as inspiration. Something that GE apparently calls “reverse innovation”. Bone Drill – A emergency care tool for a fraction of it’s current cost http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664799/to-find-the-future-of-us-medical-design-stanford-looks-abroad Embrace - A...

Sep 24th

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Sep 20th

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Sell-by dates to be scrapped to cut food waste →

Did you know –- “best before date” means that the food product may lose quality after that date but it is still safe to eat. You’re not the only one throwing out food based on the labels. Millions of homes waste tons of perfectly good food. And the British Government is taking notice. We need know our food better and to go back to trusting our senses. Labels are just...

Sep 14th

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Sep 13th

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Sep 9th

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Aug 24th

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Aug 22nd

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The Stanford Prison Experiment →

Forty years ago today, the Stanford Prison Experiment began — arguably history’s most notorious and controversial psychology experiment, which gleaned powerful and unsettling insights into human nature.

Aug 22nd

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“… Adopting a mindset of “provisional truth.” Provisional...”

– From ‘Why being certain means being wrong’ by Ted Cadsby at the Harvard Business Review

Aug 14th

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The desire to connect with family is an old one. But in our increasingly scattered lives, the need seems to be surfacing with a sense of urgency for many young people. Especially with our grandparents – people who have seen a really different world and lived through a lot of change. Storytree is one project addressing the need. Memory Capsule by Elena Gianni is another project that takes a...

Aug 14th

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Aug 14th

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Aug 13th

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“… the “compliment sandwich”. Essentially, this involves a...”

– Familiar strategy. via Fast CoDesign

Aug 11th

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Aug 2nd

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A documentary exploring design thinking, a movement that tries to distinguish design as a “surface”, from its thinking “behind.” ‘Design thinking’ and ‘design management’ are definitely the buzz words of the day. Here’s a documentary (in the making) exploring these subjects that’s hoping to get funded on Kickstarter. This might be...

Aug 2nd

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Jul 31st

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“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever...”

– via: swissmiss

Jul 30th

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Jul 30th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 21st

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Jul 21st

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Apple Stoer in Kunming, China →

You definitely cannot predict what is possible in China. Apparently, you can now spot ripoff Apple stores. Astonishing! via mrgan

Jul 19th

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Jul 19th

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The UX of Co-Design

Paula Wellings of Adaptive Path outlines some of her experience principles for organising and facilitating large client co-design workshops. There are some really simple but important pointers in here that are valid for pretty much any workshop or group interaction. Link to the post

Jul 18th

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Typography cheat sheets →

Typography resources for the web

Jul 16th

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InVision is a new UI prototyping tool that’s getting a fair bit of buzz. It’s great to be able to prototype experiences with the same tools that we use to design them, at the same fidelity. The demo focusses entirely on button click interactions and so does the high-fidelity prototype on the website. No functioning text-fields, drop downs, check-boxes etc. At this stage it looks...

Jul 14th

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